Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 87 96
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 +44
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 58 32 51
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.52% 1.35% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 1.61% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 13 39
10th Percentile £440 £470 £463
25th Percentile £517 £500 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +27.18% -15.22%
75th Percentile £666 £650 £629
90th Percentile £688 £720 £670
England median daily rate £575 £600 £627
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.31% +0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.50 £50.50
Median hourly rate £70.16 £65.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% +27.45% -29.66%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% +225.00% -73.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,048 1,982 2,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.93% 83.45% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,072 1,722
10th Percentile £250 £294 £274
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £678 £656 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 110 169
10th Percentile £14.13 £18.95 £15.95
25th Percentile £17.30 £26.81 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%
75th Percentile £44.61 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.08 £71.71 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the North West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +19 36 £588 -6.00% 47
Cumbria - 8 £553 - 3
Cheshire -23 5 £443 -31.92% 10
Lancashire +3 4 £469 -10.71% 20
Merseyside -5 3 £650 +29.94% 3
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) CICS
2 1 (1.72%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.72%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (1.72%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) AWS
2 13 (22.41%) Azure
3 9 (15.52%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) SaaS
4 6 (10.34%) Serverless
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.62%) GitHub
5 5 (8.62%) PaaS
6 4 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.90%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (6.90%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (6.90%) Apigee
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (6.90%) Datadog
6 4 (6.90%) Loggly
6 4 (6.90%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) SAN
2 1 (1.72%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) LAN
2 1 (1.72%) Network Security
2 1 (1.72%) Skype
2 1 (1.72%) WAN
2 1 (1.72%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) BigQuery
1 6 (10.34%) DynamoDB
1 6 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.62%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.90%) MySQL
3 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.90%) RDBMS
3 4 (6.90%) Redis
3 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) Big Data
4 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.72%) Looker
5 1 (1.72%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Git
1 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.90%) Gradle
2 4 (6.90%) Maven
2 4 (6.90%) SonarLint
2 4 (6.90%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.45%) GitLab
4 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 24 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.62%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Military
5 2 (3.45%) Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (67.24%) Architect
2 16 (27.59%) Lead
2 16 (27.59%) Technical Architect
3 15 (25.86%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (12.07%) Java Architect
4 7 (12.07%) Java Technical Architect
4 7 (12.07%) SailPoint Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Senior
7 2 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Data Centre Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Lead Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.45%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) SailPoint
2 7 (12.07%) Kafka
3 6 (10.34%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.62%) Dropwizard
4 5 (8.62%) J2EE
4 5 (8.62%) Micronaut
4 5 (8.62%) RESTful
5 4 (6.90%) Celery
5 4 (6.90%) JWT
6 3 (5.17%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.45%) Playwright
7 2 (3.45%) pytest
7 2 (3.45%) React
8 1 (1.72%) .NET
8 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.72%) ISPF
8 1 (1.72%) Middleware
8 1 (1.72%) REST
8 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.79%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.62%) N-Tier
3 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.45%) Clustering
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.72%) PKI
7 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.72%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
2 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.72%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) Mentoring
2 15 (25.86%) Agile
3 14 (24.14%) Microservices
4 13 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
6 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (17.24%) TOGAF
7 9 (15.52%) Architectural Design
7 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
8 8 (13.79%) Application Virtualisation
8 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 8 (13.79%) Customer Service
9 7 (12.07%) Coaching
9 7 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (12.07%) Due Diligence
9 7 (12.07%) IT Strategy
9 7 (12.07%) SDLC
9 7 (12.07%) Software Engineering
9 7 (12.07%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) Java
2 8 (13.79%) Python
3 2 (3.45%) SQL
4 1 (1.72%) Bicep
4 1 (1.72%) CLIST
4 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.72%) JCL
4 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.72%) REXX
4 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.72%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.72%) CISSP
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) GIAC
5 1 (1.72%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
2 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.72%) SOC 1
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.72%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Terraform
2 6 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.72%) Ansible
4 1 (1.72%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.72%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (1.72%) SCCM
4 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Gigya
3 3 (5.17%) Capita
3 3 (5.17%) Google
3 3 (5.17%) IBM
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle
4 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) Citrix
5 1 (1.72%) F5
5 1 (1.72%) HP
5 1 (1.72%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.72%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.72%) VMware